Trying

Whenever we are trying to have a different experience than we are having in the moment, we are creating stress for ourselves. We create a gap between what is and what 'should be'. It doesn't matter if it's the pain we want to get rid of or our resistance against the pain. Or any other circumstance or emotion. We have been taught to believe that peace lies at the other end of figuring out our problems. Of managing and controlling and changing our circumstances/emotions/thoughts/experiences.

What I'm seeing again and again, in teeny tiny little steps, is that it's the other way around.

Peace and contentment is what's already there - before my judgement, thinking and controlling.

And - luckily - it is still there, no matter how much I get caught up in my busy mind. It doesn't go anywhere. It actually can't go anywhere - it is what we are made of. It only gets covered up by our busy thinking temporarily. 

What we are is pure life, pure being, an unconditional open space for every experience to arise in it.

And the beauty is that this quiet space inside holds all the answers we have been looking for.

It's the space from which new ideas and fresh thinking arises.

It's where we get in touch with a bigger intelligence than our personal little minds have to offer.

Every time I get a little glimpse of this it's like a heavy burden is being lifted off my shoulders.

It's not my job to manage my life or my health. The same energy that keeps me breathing and lets flowers turn their heads towards the sun is taking care of that.